Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 16, 15 April 1893 — From the Daily of April 13. [ARTICLE]

From the Daily of April 13.

Cotr*mi.«ioner Hiounl, who «t l>re*ent is ihe cyoo«are of «II eye*> in H«w«ii, h«e m«de hirnself very popular aud res{>ected by «11 thnee witb «hom he hae e*me m contact einoe hie arriv«l. Numerooe enquiries from our fr.eoda on the other Ialande ae io his ai*pear«nov «nd “who be ia" have reached ua. He has kind!y aIlow<d Mr. Nalhaniel to bivea picture of himeelfand Mn* Blount Uken wbicb haeheen done by Messr« Severin and Bolster of thia cily, and these phot<>graphs wiil be distributed all over the group f<>r the satisfaction of tbe patiently waiting. patriotic liawaiian. Mr. Blount'e {K>litical career is eet forth in the following clipping from the Haverhill Bulletin. James H. Blount, whom President CleveUnd has upmed to ix , cbairman of tlie Hawaiiau eom- ■ mieeion, was. until March 4. the ! Dem*>cratic Father of the h»use of j repreeenUtives. Upon that dale j he retired after 20 yearb’ uninter- . rupted service as a member. He wae at the time ehainnan of the committee on fcreign affairs. where he gained a knowltdge of ihe internationai relation of the United States that esj>ecially fita him f>r ihe poeiliou to whieh he hus been ohoaen. Mr. BloUiit is a nstive of Maeon. Georgia, where be was U>rn Sept. 12,1837. He raade his nppearance in puhlie life in 1872, when he was electcd to congress from the sixth district of Georg ; a. Smce thal time he has heen continuous!y reelected. At the time of his lasl eleelion he had a hanl fightngainst ihe FarmerB’ Allianee. but eame ont successfully, although six of his new colleagues went down before the new elemenl. When Mr. Blount entered congrcss Jamee G, Blaine waa serving his third and la«t term as speaker. Since then six other si>eakers—Kerr, Kand »11. Kiefer, Carii8le, Recd and Crisp—nave j>resided. At the beginning of bis second term V r . Hlounl was tt{*pointed a member of the eominillee of appropriations. He wae cbosen by Speaker Reed to suc ceed Mr. Randall on the eommittee on rules. Mr. Blount re tired from the house heeauee he declined to take a renomination lust fa 11. A eommuniealiou signed Missiouary Royalist aj*pcarB in this iesue, calliug us to task !or using the word miseionaries about thc pulitical party whieh ie fighting for annexation. We fully agret with our oorrespondent that the terra ie very unforton«te, and eannot possibly convey the true uieaning to our sympathizers abroad, and we shall certainly act upon his siiggP8tion. W’e have no quarrel with the christians who eame here years ag<>. and preached the gospel. and died respected and belovedby the Hawaiiane. Men like Fathers Gulick, Alexander, Lyons, Smith. and Baldwin. and many others, are deeerving uf all thc ven«ration whieh agr*teful pe»>p!e has bt9t<»weil on thrm. lt haa heen the fault of their descendants and the clique whieh gatliered around them to obtaiu fav>>rs from thechiefs, always ready to follow the advice uf the father», that the class waa brought into d!sres{,>ect aud the word use»i for a polilieal * party of unsoruuulous adventurers, and we admit that ihe using of the word for th»t jH»litical rabbie wae an inju8tice to the word «nd tht class of go»>d men who are des cnbod by it. Exeunt the “raissionaries” of Hawaiian poht»cs. Iq an interview with a New York gentleinan pnuninenl both in the legal as in the journalistic professions at j>resent visiting in Hawaii the question relating to ihe jK»litioal future of Hawaii in case of an.iexatioo was put, and the answers whieh we priut l>elow together with the question will be noticed with interest by our readers. Question : —What right wouid Hawaiians have should tbe United Statee annex the lelands? Answer. — F:ral: Hawaii nei would a!ways be a territory. The eiUieoi of « territory ean uot rote

j f>r Pre«ident, Hawaii-nei oould . oot oome in a« a 8tate: A« its popu lation is far too «mali for that. aod the L*o’ted 8tate» will oot admit i «oy more tbinly popuiated region« t> st.i tehood. See>H)d; The Govem«r, Secretaey j «f State and other high office» would be appointed by tt»e Pre*idea. Tbey w«u!d of ennne be j politician« from the E<»«t, put into I office to reward them f«r party service». They wou!d be cbanged : from ttme tc time as parties in j Am*-rica would change. Third: Hawaii would have no reprtsentitive in tbe Senate. If w«uid havea deiegate in the House »f Repre«eiitativee; but he wou!d have no v«te—o»Iya nght tospeak oo Hawaiian afiatrs. Fourtlr Hawaii would have her territ«rial legisi» ture. Thi§ would give her the nower to legislate on ra«tters of r<<ads and bridges, I schoo!s, enminal and civil Uws. j raarr : age, health affairs. leprosy, : *c., —uuless the C<>ngre«s at Washmgt<>n ehould pass 8«me general i Uw for the whole United State« — Fiually—All sraall officers. such 1 as Sheriffs, School commissionera, ( r<>ad insjKCtora, *c., would be ! elected by the people. Tiie United States have now the t»*rntories of Ar;zoua, New Mexico, j Utah and Oklahoma —These are ! «11 to heeome st«tes. The | lndian territory is filUd with Iudians, some civilized, with their own laws, s«me wild and treated by the government as chi!dren. Ala.-ka’ā adiuinistration is unsettled. Tirae and again have its j»e«j)ie asked to he org.mized into a territory but congress has paid no atteution to thera. The great principle in Araerica is to have no territory whieh may not h«j>e to be a state. These islands would form the first exception; and henee America hesitates to annex Hawaii. Mr. H. N. Castle is at it again. Durlng the last Lcgislature he very <>ften got his scalp into danger by j>oking fun atthe members in the Leg ; slature in his ‘*House i N>>tes." Ashf«rd’s hihlequotations. the Waikapu maid’e kicking over the traces, Oily Bill’s speeches, or ihe rulings of the were a con«tant s >urce for his rai!d satirr but under the new regime he has preserved so s«lemn and serious a tone in regard to the uieeticigs of the Advisory Council that we have heen inclined to su»pect him of taking his afternoon snooze during the siitings and n«t listemng at all to the fun going on. Yesterday his vein of huraor has burst open again and he gives a very humorous and funny description of a scene whieh of course nobody cou!d believe t»ok nlaee in Ihe eouneil. The discus8ion about Dr. Miner’s political views and his whereabouts on the 17th of Januury. and the state of his wife’s nerve« and his apj>ointing his broth«r-in-l«w to an office not in his gift, 5s really very grotesque, but we should suggest to Mr. Castle to head his sarcasms “House Notes” and not put them in his paj>er right in the rejx>rt of the j>r>K , eed'ngs of the eouneil, bec«use some bickwo*dsruan might Uike them au s(rieui and fonu an 1 entirely wrong idea of the diguity, , business ability, and eommon sense of the Hawaiian Government. The «mall souI and generally o>nteraj>tible disjx>sition of the Advertiser man eame to the front ! vesterdav in his c«wardly insinuations lhat the ur<f>>rtunate aeeideut «f the wholeaale Doisoning of the governraent «<»ldiers was due to the royahste.—If «ueh st«tement was made for the purp >seof makīng political capital «nd to create syiuj>athy for the «nnex«tion cause r the blackgu«rding refjrm sheet i laileii utterly,as its ba«e slur only • awakeued diagust and contempt in i the hearts of every fair-minded , citixen. We are «incere!y «orry for , the men at the harracks with 1 whom we,«rtheroyali«tsgeneraliy, ha’.*e no quarrel whatever, and we 1 hope that the cause of their «iek- • ness will be a«certained so as to prevent a recurrence of the aeei- ' dent.— 1 | By the way the Adverti«er w«s also ready a few weeks ago with i aoiue slurs against oertain royalīst« i whom tbe paper iutimated were i implicatcd iu tbe opium n>bbery

tBe 8t»tion hoow and tbe crown jewel rvbbery at Ihe palaee.—Tbe j «uepieiooe of Mr. H. N. Castlc | has oot been «ab«Untiated »o frr j bot we 9boold advise huo to stir j | Mar?l»al Uitchcock up to bring the troe culprit« bef«re the court« of jnstic>* aud bave them ponished. — Kumors and saspici«us point wards men who certainiy cannot be «uspected of being royalists and if tbey are inooeenl it would be as important to be clear?d of any suspicion« now attached to them s s it i« f>r the royalist official3 against whom the Advertiser h«s made its dirty insinuatif>ns. We bel’teve of M«r«hal Hitchcock j that he will fetrles«ly do his duty and !et justice bed*>ne even if sorae h>gb makamaka bas lo drop.— The «ickness of the so!dier« was of course u«ed as an exceilent cause for g**tting up a scare. and the Ad- | verti«er bri8tle« in its columns with Btateuient8 of the htroic response to ealle to arms by the provisional 8<>ldiers to fight sh«d«ws. It is tire«ome to reiterate over and , over again tbat the citizens who oppose annexation and the p«licy «f the Pr«visional Goverument have no intentions whatever oi alteinpting auy counter-revolutiou. The case ol Hawaii has, by the contesting parties, viz; the Pr*visional Governrae:it representing the annexation clique ,and the Queen representing the |>eople 1 been laid bef<*re the U.iited States Government wliieh has apj>ointtd, Commissioner Blount as examiniug judge aud presumably will give its decision according to tbe ; facts and conclusions to be pre- | sented by him. Mr. Neumann as : counse! f*>r the Queen and her j j>eople has assured the President of the United States that, whatever the deci«ion in Hawaii will be, his | clients will abide by it and accept ! the result in a proper spirlt. satisfied that justice has heen done. I We presurae that the attitude of | the Pr«visional Government will be similar to that of the Queen and as they have submitted tneir , case t<> the same tribunal, they will abide peacefully by the de- I i cisiou to be rendej-ed. If they | shou!d act «tlierwise, they would be guilty of contempt, and they would probab!y fiud that the Uuited States, tis a C«urt. is perfectly able to punish for contempt, ; and also to enforce the decision at whieh it raay arrive. Let us have a rest on all this fighting talk. The Provisional Government would be as safe with an ordinary watchman in Aliiolani Hale as they are with companies «f soldiers and g«tling guns and they would save a vast amount of money for the taxpayers With an erapty treasury it is safe to say that there is no burning anxiety on the part of anybody, just at present, tostej into the shoes of the ruinistry, and sj>end sleepless nights worrying over the pr«spects of having to pay the daily military, provision bill with the butter, 12 «x cheeks, 55 j>ouQds steak,45 jw>unds roast beef, 50 pounds mutton, 50 jK>unds stew beef, 2 livers, 80 Ioaves of bread besides veget«bles, cnkes. pies and milk, and no money in view anywhere f*>r the pupose Hold quietly on to the reins! Gentlemen of the provisional. Ifyou ean extricate the treasnry fr*»ra ita preseut niudd'e you are a great deal wiser than your looks betray, and you will be entitled to a plaee in the world’s fair. Mr. Dambn says that he is tired of g»ing around borrowing money for the $>vernmenL What p«ssible reason is there f«r *‘g*>ing ar«und ?” Haven’t we tbe assuranee «f Dr. McGrew's soj>«rific pill , jthat uine-tenths of the c«uutry’8 ; weallh is t*> be fouud right | in the annexation e 1 u b. and ean Mr. Damon, f>r a minute. d«':bt that the true pa- | triotism, and love for their governi ment, of the memben of that eluh i« not sufficiently pron«uncrd to I make them *'dtg” iustāntiy as soon as asked ? There is rutnor afl«v*t *>f an engugement helween the Editor of the Uolomua and Miss Emma Luth. It is a pure love match on her part (how she love« him !) while be is «uspected of being after her “tin.” The pet:tioD of Messrs., Oanbar A and the merchauts of Honolulu, praying that a measure be adopted »hereby the houses will be numbered and the namee of the atiwti piaoed on the oomen U ex-

tremelj timelr »nd wt> hope will j | recdve th<* wrious »nd f»ror«ble , 1 cowider«tion nf the enuneil» —i Honoialo boasla of» n>ost excel- : I l«nt lelephone sratem, electric | IighU, *plendid ro»ds (when it | doesn’t rain) tr»tnc»rs »nd haek». [ bat, in regard to facil:ties in show- | ing to tbe weary tWTelleron fool his destin»tion, it i» the mi>st nncivilized villsge we hare yet eome across. It woald affjfd the greatest difficulty no»alonefor strangers but fur a gre.tt number of kama»inas if tbey should attempt to par a visit to a friend whoee address «aj, sav Pensacola J?treet, between Lunalilo and PiiKoi S?treets.-— , Stanley’s ext*dition to find Livineston would be a tr:fle in eompar>son —he knew at least that j Livingston waa somewhere in the | middle of Afric* and direction» where lhat is could be obtained from anv passing native but nothing | in Honolulu indicates wbere anybody Iivea, or whieh streets are whieh. or the cther. or any other guidanoe fordirectiou s<>we sincerely h>>pe that the committee, to whieh the matter is referred, will rep»irt | earlv and enahle Mr. Dunbar to g.) to work at onee—We understand that there will be no expense at all for the 1 and the small expei«se whieh will beimposed <m thehouse owners we have no doubt they will cheerfully pay.